World of Art Series Bauhaus Paperback by Frank Whitford

Product Details

• Publisher: Thames and Hudson (1984-04-03)
• Language: English
• Paperback: 0 pages
• ISBN-13: 9780500201930
• Item Weight: 421.85 grams
• Dimensions: 0.0 x 0.0 x 0.0 cm

The way our environment looks, the appearance of everything from housing developments to newspapers, is partly the result of a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919 and closed down by the Nazis in 1933. This was the Bauhaus, which has left an indelible mark on art education throughout the world. Setting everything firmly against a backdrop of the times, Frank Whitford traces the cultural ideas behind its conception and thoroughly describes its teaching methods. He examines the activities of the teachers--artists as eminent as Klee and Kandinsky--and the daily lives of the students. Everything is described with the aid, wherever possible, of the words of those who were there at the time. 154 illus., 16 in color.

About the Author

Frank Whitford was born in 1941 and educated at Wadham College, Oxford; the Courtauld Institute, London; and the Freie Universität, Berlin. He worked as a cartoonist for the Sunday Mirror and the London Evening Standard until 1970, when he became a lecturer in the history of art at the Slade School, University College London. From 1975, he was a senior lecturer at Homerton College, Cambridge, and from 1981, he was a visiting tutor at the Royal College of Art in London. He died in 2014.